In our undeniably digital world, data is one of the most precious assets in business. This is especially true for the insurance industry, which is why many are leveraging modern cloud-based platforms to improve performance, reduce costs, and capitalize on new opportunities to innovate. While all industries feel the pressure to preserve or enhance the integrity of their data through their cloud migration initiatives, insurers are especially impacted given how crucial data is to their operation. With their high volumes of claims, policies, and premiums, an ineffective approach to data quality and validation, not only slows down cloud migration but leaves organizations open to threats and risk. Although there is no one-size-fits-all solution for implementing and maintaining data integrity for insurance companies, ensuring the potential to extract value from their data is maximized is universal.
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On the Cloud? Data Integrity for Insurers in Cloud-Based Platforms
1. On the Cloud?
Data Integrity for Insurers In Cloud-
based Platforms
Ashwin Ramachandran
Senior Director Product Management
2. “Businesses that follow the lead of
cloud-migration outperformers
stand to unlock some $1 trillion in
value.” – Mckinsey & Company
3. On the cloud?
The demand placed on
the insurance
infrastructure is
increasing!
• Innovative InsureTech companies are gaining ground
in the market
• Client’s demand for flexibility and accessibility
accelerated
• Uncertainty about customized legacy applications
• Slow data analytics due to complex data silos
• Difficulty innovating with data-driven strategies
• Costly mainframe maintenance
• Skill risks due to outdated programming languages
• Developing future-proof and strategic applications
4. Data integration is more critical
than ever
Businesses of all
types are adopting
the cloud faster
than ever before.
Hybrid cloud is the
environment of
choice for flexibility,
control, and security.
Real-time access to
data is required for
fast, confident
decision making
1 2 3
On the cloud?
5. “85% of organizations
will embrace a cloud-first
principle by 2025”
- Gartner
“55% of leaders cite data
modernization as the reason
for their shift to cloud”
- Deloitte
“Approximately $100
billion of wasted
migration spend is expected over the
next three years”
- McKinsey & Company
So despite the excitement around getting to
the cloud, organizations need to be careful…
On the cloud?
6. Implementing a modern data
integration framework isn’t easy
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30
40
50
60
Real-time
CDC
Skills Governance Data
Accesibility
Budget Data
Quality
Legacy
%
of
People
Who
Consider
this
a
Top
Challenge
(Rated
1
or
2)
(Rated
1
or
2)
1. Real-time CDC: Keeping data up to date,
accessing and processing data in real-time
2. Skills/Staff: Shortage of skills and staff
who have an understanding across cloud and
legacy technologies
3. Data Accessibility: Making data
accessible to users across the business
4. Budget: Spending on maintenance and not
innovation
5. Data Quality: Poor data quality and lack of
trust in data
6. Legacy systems: Difficult to leverage data
from legacy systems (mainframes, EDWs, IBM i
etc.) with modern cloud platforms
7. Scalability: Ability to scale with and process
massive data volumes
Q. What are your top challenges when
it comes to implementing a modern data
architecture?
On the cloud?
7. You need
data integrity…
data with maximum accuracy,
consistency, and context for
confident business decision-
making
On the cloud?
8. 47%
of newly created data
records have at least
one critical error
68%
of organizations say disparate
data negatively impacts their
organization
84%
of CEOs say that they
are concerned about the
integrity of the data they are
making decisions on
Data Trends Survey 2019 Forbes
HBR
Data integrity is a business
imperative
On the cloud?
11. On the cloud?
Strategic partnerships support
expanding data integration strategy
Native integrations with partner platforms
Solving use cases together that extend
platform value
12. Precisely + AWS = Success
Simple integration
Single solution to integrate,
prepare, load, cleanse,
transform & stream
mainframe data to the AWS
cloud
Real-time replication
Databases are kept in-sync
between mainframe and
cloud for reporting,
analytics, and data
warehousing
Scalable and
resilient
High-performance
replication is able to
recover from network and
DB connectivity loss
Mainframe
expertise
Leverages Precisely’s 50
years of experience
implementing complex
mainframe solutions
On the cloud?
13. On the cloud?
Helping enterprise
customers
solve strategic problems
• Reduce time to market of revenue-generating applications
• Simplify data integration and data life cycle
• Differentiate through superior customer experience
• Enable the adoption of new platforms for strategic data
initiatives, including.
• Increase the value of cloud investments
• Gain strategic value from all enterprise data
• Meet regulatory and compliance requirements for data
integration
14. On the cloud?
Focus on Data Integrity
for cloud migration
success
• Break down data silos by connecting traditional systems, such
as mainframes, to next-wave technologies in minutes
• Real-time data delivery to feed business applications and
analytics
• Design once, deploy anywhere to future-proof your
business with easy to-use GUI and self-tuning engine - no coding
or tuning needed
• Work with mainframe expertise to help drive
innovation – directly access and understand VSAM files, COBOL
Copybooks, IMS, mainframe fixed and sequential files, and Db2 data
• Build data governance and quality Into your data-centric
processes to ensure accuracy and context
Lets chat about cloud migration for insurance, the hardships, and opportunities that exist with data, and how we can ensure success when dealing with this topic.
If we look at the market forces shaping the wider industry, insurers are being called upon to be more agile so as to keep pace with rapidly changing demands. This is due to a range of factors, from higher inflationary environment expenses for insurance operations and increasing claims, to the impact of the global pandemic and predicted recession.
New insurance companies that use AI and ML technology are taking over the market. An Accenture study estimated that “Underwriters are spending 40% of their time on non-core activities, representing an efficiency loss of $85-$160 billion over the next 5 years.” these are things that could be achieved with AI/ML but only of insurers have the capacity to use their own data efficiently, that same study found that up to “$170 billion in premium is at risk over the next 5 years as customers switch carriers due to not being fully satisfied by the claims process.”
From a cost perspective, the case for mainframe modernization is clear. The demand placed on the insurance infrastructure is increasing, with business capability needs driving up Million-Instructions-Per-Second (MIPS) usage and cost. A legacy mainframe also has an impact on talent, as dedicated staff will be required to provide maintenance and upkeep – a diminishing skillset as more and more senior employees retire from the workforce. Down the line, this manifests as a considerable business risk. Modernizing the mainframe is not just about overall agility, but securing a foundation for important technological transformation
Research shows that:
85% of organizations will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025
55% of leaders site data modernization as the reason for their shift to cloud
Approximately $100 billion of wasted migration spend is expected over the next three years
So despite the excitement around getting to the cloud, organizations need to be careful…
It is clear that trying to bridge this integration gap is not easy.
We surveyed the marketplace and these were are all identified as top challenges when it comes to implementing a modern data architecture
Real-time CDC: Keeping data up to date, accessing and processing data in real-time
Skills/Staff: Shortage of skills and staff who have an understanding across cloud and legacy technologies – good developers are hard to find
Data Accessibility: Making data accessible to users across the business
Budget: Spending on maintenance and not innovation
Data Quality: Poor data quality and lack of trust in data
Because moving to cloud comes with a heavy cost if not done strategically.
McKinsey & Company recently conducted a study that shows that:
Over 75% of cloud migration projects are overbudget
37% is spent on systems integrators since they do not have the cloud skills in house to manage these projects
15% on decommissioning costs for other platforms
38% of cloud migration projects run behind schedule
Companies are looking to staff 50% of their cloud talent in house so they do not need to rely as heavily on third parties
(If you are interested in learning more about this topic, all of this data came from this McKinsey Study https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/cloud-migration-opportunity-business-value-grows-but-missteps-abound)
And that’s why we at Precisely are focused on delivering data integrity in a new and different way. There has been no consistent definition of data integrity that the market all uses, and the definitions out there often focused on collections of technical capabilities related to data quality. But that is not good enough. Today’s businesses need a definition of data integrity based on their need for data that is not just accurate and consistent, but is also rich in context.
And that’s why Precisely has redefined data integrity as data with maximum accuracy, consistency, and context for confident business decision-making.
A critical aspect of data integrity is data availability and in order to have that, businesses need to be able to integrate all of their mission-critical systems.
And you can certainly find any number of articles and surveys in the press, or analyst reports, that dig into this issue of data integrity. Here you see just a few stats from Forbes, the Harvard Business Review, and Precisely’s own Data Trends Survey.
When two-thirds of organizations say siloed data negatively impacts their data initiatives and almost half of newly created data records have at least one critical error, it is no wonder that 84% of CEOs doubt the integrity of the data on which they make decisions!
The most common mistake insurers have committed is assuming they need to go all-in on a cloud migration. Many companies are learning they can be successful with an incremental approach
lift and shift or deep cloud integration?
Public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud?
Cloud tools and KPIs
Cloud service providers
Governance and security considerations
Cloud migration strategy and roadmap
The modular, interoperable Precisely Data Integrity Suite contains everything you need to deliver accurate, consistent, contextual data to your business - wherever and whenever it’s needed.
The seven modules of the Data Integrity Suite are built on proven Precisely technology.
Not only do the Suite’s modules work seamlessly together, they also work alongside the portfolio of Precisely products, enabling you to easily adopt Suite capabilities for new use cases whenever you choose
All elements sit on a common foundation that’s modular, interoperable, intelligent, and business friendly. The foundation provides a range of services, including a metadata management engine that shares data between the modules and third-party programs to deliver incremental value.
Typically, in any major data initiative, you first need to connect to sources, and sometimes move or replicate data to another environment.
With Data Integration, you can easily create streaming data pipelines that integrate data from core environments such as relational, and of course, mainframe and IBM I, with modern cloud-based data platforms like Snowflake to drive analytics and innovation and extend the value of your mission-critical systems.
We understand that pipelines must scale for your needs today and extend for tomorrow.
In order to make sure that we deliver seamless integration, Precisely is partnering with the biggest names in the market.
The data integrity suite and connect offer native integrations with these platforms, and we work together to solve use cases that extend platform value. These aren’t just marketing partnerships, we customize our platform to integrate with these partners.
Connect can translate mainframe data on the fly with no MF expertise required.
Connect has the ability to handle complex mainframe copy books.
Connect has the ability to distribute variable length data with ease, all while retaining the integrity of data.
Connect empowers customers to solve strategic problems like:
Reduce time to market of revenue generating applications
Simplify data integration and data life cycle
Ensure a better customer experience
Enable the adoption of new platforms for strategic data initiatives including
Increase the value of cloud investments
Gain strategic value from all your enterprise data
Meet regulator and compliance requirements for data integration
Weather with precisely or someone else, we are all about data integrity, the individual journey and the benefits that it brings,